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    "bismuth",
    "Science",
    "Chemistry",
    "Alchemy",
    "Katie Goldin",
    "Alex Schmidt",
    "elements",
    "Katie Goldin on Bluesky",
    "@ProBirdRights on Bluesky",
    "'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)",
    "When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)",
    "native-land.ca",
    "U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture",
    "The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)",
    "\"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)",
    "Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)",
    "Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)",
    "The deadly, life‑giving and transient elements that make up group 15 of the periodic table (The Conversation)",
    "The bismuth crystal: why it looks so amazingly trippy and why it’s actually a big deal for science (ZME Science)",
    "Fact Box: Bismuth (Royal Society Of Chemistry)",
    "Opinion: Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table (The New York Times)",
    "Molecule Of The Week: Bismuth subsalicylate (American Chemical Society)",
    "About Pepto-Bismol (UK National Health Service)",
    "GrrlScientist: Element of the week: bismuth (The Guardian)",
    "Pepto's in the Pink for a Reason (Los Angeles Times)",
    "Greenville once had bragging rights to Pepto-Bismol (Greenville News)",
    "An Entirely Unnecessary Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth. Please Stay Awake. (American Council On Science And Health)",
    "Effect of bismuth nitrate given in combination with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) on the antitumor activity and renal toxicity of the latter in nude mice inoculated with human bladder tumor (Cancer Chemotherapy Pharmacology)",
    "Diseases and conditions: Lead poisoning (Mayo Clinic)",
    "Newsroom: Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics (McGill University)",
    "SciShow on YouTube: \"Is Bismuth The Future Of Tech?\"",
    "SNAPSHOT: This Element's Weird Behavior Could Lead to Faster Electronics (Discover Magazine)",
    "Not Just ‘Rare Earths’: U.S. Gets Many Critical Minerals From China (The New York Times)",
    "How China came to rule the world of rare earth elements (NPR)",
    "Japan's shifting strategy on rare earths could be a model for the U.S. (NPR)",
    "Fact or Fiction?: Lead Can Be Turned Into Gold (Scientific American)",
    "Alchemy Is Possible—If You Have a Nuclear Reactor (Mental Floss)",
    "Reflections on the Legacy of a Legend: Glenn T. Seaborg, 1912-1999 (Los Alamos Science)",
    "Glenn T. Seaborg -- Director of Plutonium Research, Met Lab, 1942-1945 (U.S. Department of Energy)",
    "Glenn Seaborg -- Nuclear Chemist -- University of California, Berkeley (Atomic Heritage Foundation)",
    "The Princes of Saxony Collected These Kitschy Miniature Mountains (JStor Daily)",
    "South American ice chemistry records rise of Incas, arrival of Spanish (Ars Technica)",
    "Family Name BISMUT (ANU Museum Of The Jewish People)",
    "Ten years of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Dazed Magazine)",
    "Pierre Bismuth -- Molly Warnock (ArtForum)",
    "News: Oscar-Winning Artist Pierre Bismuth on Why He Developed His Own Chocolate Bars to Poke Fun at the Art Industry (Artnet.com)"
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  "textContent": "Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why bismuth is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.\n\n**LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:**\n\n  * Katie Goldin on Bluesky\n  * @ProBirdRights on Bluesky\n  * 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)\n  * When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)\n\n**RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:**\n\n  * native-land.ca\n  * U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture\n  * The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)\n  * \"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)\n  * Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)\n  * Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)\n\n**RESEARCH SOURCES:**\n\n  * The deadly, life‑giving and transient elements that make up group 15 of the periodic table (The Conversation)\n  * The bismuth crystal: why it looks so amazingly trippy and why it’s actually a big deal for science (ZME Science)\n  * Fact Box: Bismuth (Royal Society Of Chemistry)\n  * Opinion: Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table (The New York Times)\n  * Molecule Of The Week: Bismuth subsalicylate (American Chemical Society)\n  * About Pepto-Bismol (UK National Health Service)\n  * GrrlScientist: Element of the week: bismuth (The Guardian)\n  * Pepto's in the Pink for a Reason (Los Angeles Times)\n  * Greenville once had bragging rights to Pepto-Bismol (Greenville News)\n  * An Entirely Unnecessary Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth. Please Stay Awake. (American Council On Science And Health)\n  * Effect of bismuth nitrate given in combination with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) on the antitumor activity and renal toxicity of the latter in nude mice inoculated with human bladder tumor (Cancer Chemotherapy Pharmacology)\n  * Diseases and conditions: Lead poisoning (Mayo Clinic)\n  * Newsroom: Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics (McGill University)\n  * SciShow on YouTube: \"Is Bismuth The Future Of Tech?\"\n  * SNAPSHOT: This Element's Weird Behavior Could Lead to Faster Electronics (Discover Magazine)\n  * Not Just ‘Rare Earths’: U.S. Gets Many Critical Minerals From China (The New York Times)\n  * How China came to rule the world of rare earth elements (NPR)\n  * Japan's shifting strategy on rare earths could be a model for the U.S. (NPR)\n  * Fact or Fiction?: Lead Can Be Turned Into Gold (Scientific American)\n  * Alchemy Is Possible—If You Have a Nuclear Reactor (Mental Floss)\n  * Reflections on the Legacy of a Legend: Glenn T. Seaborg, 1912-1999 (Los Alamos Science)\n  * Glenn T. Seaborg -- Director of Plutonium Research, Met Lab, 1942-1945 (U.S. Department of Energy)\n  * Glenn Seaborg -- Nuclear Chemist -- University of California, Berkeley (Atomic Heritage Foundation)\n  * The Princes of Saxony Collected These Kitschy Miniature Mountains (JStor Daily)\n  * South American ice chemistry records rise of Incas, arrival of Spanish (Ars Technica)\n  * Family Name BISMUT (ANU Museum Of The Jewish People)\n  * Ten years of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Dazed Magazine)\n  * Pierre Bismuth -- Molly Warnock (ArtForum)\n  * News: Oscar-Winning Artist Pierre Bismuth on Why He Developed His Own Chocolate Bars to Poke Fun at the Art Industry (Artnet.com)\n\n",
  "title": "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Bismuth"
}